Flash forward how does it end

Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. PearsonArtPhoto Bruce Clarke Bruce Clarke 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Add a comment. Flashforward Showrunner Mark Gugenheim revealed how the show would have ended in this interview:. Community Bot 1. Keshav Srinivasan Keshav Srinivasan 1 1 gold badge 8 8 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges.

The book is not a direct parallel of the series, and it is somewhat more grounded. Jeff Jeff k 28 28 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I would say that the book is significantly different that the series, but they do share some common elements. Robert Sawyer recently wrote about this topic on his Facebook page: Why are the bad guys so desperate to perfect the replicating of flashforwards?

How long till they wake up this time? They're not unconscious. They're dead. All seven billion of them. From there, you've got a great springboard for what could truly be the new LOST: a handful of characters who didn't die those wearing the QED rings, plus, if we want, others who were protected some other way ; disaster on a gigantic scale -- the entire world shut down, and no hope of food or electricity production, etc.

Info: Robert J Sawyer wrote the Flashforward novel. Eh, most important point: "But here's the memo I sent to the producers and staff writers five years ago today February 19, outlining my suggestion for Season Two" - whatever the show's writers were planning, this wasn't it, because none of the main characters were wearing QED rings.

The antagonists were also in control of the accelerator and are the ones that triggered the second global blackout, so it doesn't fit at all with the suggestion here of them already being aware of the global calamity they cause. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. We assume. Most importantly, Mark Benford is released from his holding cell and re-enters the FBI Mosaic headquarters — even though it is full of bombs and under siege from Hellinger's masked men — so that he can spend the fateful moments gazing upon his blasted board.

It is in the staring, however, that he suddenly realises that the way Gabriel rearranged the board means the exact time of the very next blackout is spelled out: and it's only a matter of minutes after the moment of flashed-forward-reality occurs.

And with that, it was over. Not in a satisfying way, of course. The show was only cancelled after they wrapped filming on this series, so this season closer is less about answering questions and solving mysteries than it is about setting up the ongoing premise for the next season - the season that now will never happen.

Although frankly, given the muted enthusiasm with which this series has been received you might think that they should have considered that possibility and given the season an ending that was more final.

Never mind. It wasn't. But it was at least a payoff in itself to have reached the moment of flashforward, and seen the enduring power of the future with a little help from the characters who've spent so long thrashing against that power. The idea of the flashforward really is - I still believe - a powerful and engaging concept, even if the way in which it all played out wasn't as satisfactory as we might initially have hoped.

Mark sits up in his office contemplating his board and his puzzle pieces. He determines why Gabriel rearranged the red strings — now they spell out when the next blackout is, and just in time! A Tarantino-esque gun battle ensues, in which we see Wedeck not enjoying a leisurely poop in a bathroom stall as he saw in his flash, but actually hiding in a stall and busting down the door in order to kill one of the bad guys.

Mark kills all the bad guys who were out to get him, and then calls Wedeck to tell him to put the call out to the White House and the world that another blackout is coming. Then, Marks makes an arm-slicing run for a helicopter hovering outside FBI headquarters.

We see everyone collapsed and asleep except a little dog at the airport, another kangaroo this felt like overkill , and Lita, who we see pushing a blacked out Janis in a wheel chair toward certain doom. Now the postmortem: What else is there to say? It was a good show. The creators boasted they had five years of the show mapped out, but maybe they should have been more concerned with how well season one was playing out. Were they just too cocky after the networks went into a bidding war for this show?

And seriously, how could V be getting picked up!? Never, we say! At least not until they let David Lynch do another TV series.